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Lid-wiccas

  • noun
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Lid-wiccas, Lid-wícingas; pl.
The people of Brittany [or using the name of the people for the country] Brittany
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  • Carl féng tó eallum ðam westríce ... bútan Lidwiccium

    Charles took all the western kingdom ... except Brittany,

    • Chr. 885
    • ;
    • Erl. 84, 13
    • .
  • Two other MSS. have Lidwícingum,

    • Th. 154, 155
    • ,
  • and this form occurs in the Scop's Tale:--

    Ic wæs mid Lidwícingum,

    • Exon. 86 a
    • ;
    • Th. 323, 17
    • ;
    • Víd. 80
    • .
  • Micel sciphere com súþan of Lidwicum,

    • Chr. 910
    • ;
    • Erl. 101, 32
    • .
  • Lidwiccum,

    • 918
    • ;
    • Erl. 102, 22
    • .
  • The word seems to contain the British name for Armorica,

    Llydaw.

      v. notes to the passages from the
    • Cod. Exon.
    • and from the
    • Chron. 918
    • .
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  • Lid-wiccas, n.